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In 1791, Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States.
In 1864, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began his Civil War march from Atlanta to the sea.
In 1920, the first assembly of the League of Nations was called to order in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies be placed in Nazi concentration camps.
In 1960, Hollywood king Clark Gable, best remembered as Rhett Butler in "Gone With The Wind," died of a heart attack at the age of 59.
In 1969, 250,000 people demonstrated in Washington against the Vietnam War.
In 1984, 5-week-old Baby Fae died after her body rejected the baboon heart she had lived with for 20 days at California's Loma Linda University Medical Center.
In 1987, 27 people were killed in the crash of a Continental Airlines DC-9 jet taking off from Denver in a snowstorm.
In 2004, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell submitted his resignation.
In 2007, Cyclone Sidr, with winds of more than 150 mph, slammed into the southwestern Bangladesh coast, killing more than 3,400 people. Tens of thousands were injured and 1 million people were homeless.
In 2010, a five-story building in New Delhi that housed migrant workers collapsed, killing at least 42 people, with 65 others hurt and many more feared buried in debris, and fire in a high-rise Shanghai apartment building, primarily a home for teachers, killed more than 40 people and injured dozens.
In 2012, Turkish Foreign Minister Agmet Davutoglu announced Turkey had joined France and several Arab states in officially recognizing a coalition of rebels as legitimate leaders in war-torn Syria. In 2013, a Chicago computer hacker, Jeremy Hammond, 28, linked to the group known as Anonymous, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for cyberattacks on government and corporate sites, activities he described as "civil disobedience." The sentencing judge said Hammond had been "causing mayhem."